In the context of a web application, my old boss always said put a reference to an image in the database, not the image itself. I tend to agree that storing an url vs. the image itself in the DB is a ...

when i run the code below it displays an image that is stored in a mysql Db as a blob variable. The problem is if I echo out anything else, even something as simple as echo '--------'; before I call ...

I'm adding some functionality to my site so that users can upload their own profile pictures, so I was wondering about whether to store them in the database as a BLOB, or put them in the file system.
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I have an application using hibernate 3.1 and JPA annotations. It has a few objects with byte[] attributes (1k - 200k in size). It uses the JPA @Lob annotation, and hibernate 3.1 can read these just ...

this question is confusing me so i thought i should listen to an expert voice !.
is it better to upload images to a folder and just save link to mysql, or better upload img itself into a blob mysql ...

How can I easily insert a blob into a varbinary(MAX) field?
for argument sake:
assume the thing I want to insert is: c:\picture.png
the table is mytable
the column is mypictureblob
and the place is ...

I'm trying to create a PDF based on the information that resides on a database. Know I need to retrieve a TIFF image that is stored as a BLOB on a mysql database from Java. And I don't know how to do ...

I want to upload a large file of size 10M max to my mysql database. Using .htaccess i changed the PHP's own file upload limit to "10485760" = 10M, i am able to upload files upto 10M size without any ...

We are capturing a raw binary string that is variable in size (from 100k to 800k) and we would like to store these individual strings. They do not need to be indexed (duh) and there will be no queries ...

I have a global DBAdapter and also for each Table one. In my global DB-Adapter I added the type "BLOB" to the column. But i don't get what i have to change in my DBAdapter for the specific Table. What ...

I have a table with image data stored in a blob field in a MySQL database. Is there a way to export those images to files on the filesystem by using only SQL? The images should be named {imageId}.jpg
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I want to write a python script that populates a database with some information. One of the columns in my table is a BLOB that I would like to save a file to for each entry.
How can I read the file ...

I need to store a very large number (tens of millions) of 512-bit SHA-2 hashes in a MySQL table. To save space, I'd like to store them in binary form, rather than a string a hex digits. I'm using an ...

I am trying to create a google-chrome-extension that will download an mp3 file. I am trying to use HTML5 blobs and an iframe to trigger a download, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here is my code:
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I stored chunks of binary data (protobufs) in the sqlite database of an Android app without realizing that Android's Cursor can only hold a maximum of 1MB of data. I now know that I should have stored ...

I download a db from internet. I save it in my datases folder and I open it.
Inside the db there is a table "Ads" with 6 fields. 2 of these fields are BLOB. When I want to read from this table... I ...